Fresh
Whatever else you might say about this weird, creepy, and funny independent item by Guy Maddin, it's certainly different.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Tales from the Gimli Hospital
It all happened in a Gimli we no longer know.
1988 · 1h 4m · N/A
Comedy, Horror
Directed by
Guy Maddin
Overview
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
Director and cast
- Guy Maddin Director
- Kyle McCulloch as Einar the Lonely / Minstrel
- Michael Gottli as Gunnar
- Angela Heck as Snjófridur
- Margaret Anne MacLeod as Amma
- Heather Neale as Granddaughter
- David Neale as Grandson
- Don Hewak as John Ramsay
- Ron Eyolfson as Pastor Osbaldison / Patient
- Chris Johnson as Lord Dufferin
- Donna Szöke as Fish Princess
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
78%
Tomatometer
Rotten
There's a thin line between weird and strange, and Maddin's debut falls just the wrong side.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
It is a strange piece of work.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
[One] Maddin's most successful experiments in untuned cinema.
Noel Murray, AV Club
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